Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-11-25
POLITICS AND FLOWERS.
LEcTuaE pY DIR. TALMAaE IN Tue
BRooKL,N TABEnNAcLE.

DeWita Talmage, DID,, spoke in the
Brooklyn tabernacle to night, as usu.
al. The subject of his address was
Concerning the Antipodes OF Poll.
ics and Flowers He snid:
Thank God, the election aro overl
They hurt business, acidify tho dis,
position, despoil morals, rack the
nervous system, advance inebriety
and disappoint two CLASSES of people
-thoRe who win and those who lose;
he latter because they had ell their
toll for nothing, and the former by
the fact that the thing gained does
not amount to AZ much as they
thought it would. A most unsntis
factory life is the lifo of the profes.
sional politician. Always use your
best influence for the betterment OF
the public interest. But he who on.
ters politice as profession, hoping
to get from it famous and high
places. is in oil probability commit.
ting fatal blunder, and, not fore.
seeing this, all over the land nre to.
dny those sore of head, sore of heart,
cast down and misanthropic. Ma
caulay wrote: "Every friendship
which man may have becomes pre-.
carioua us soon as ho engages in pol
tiles" Thomas Corwin, tho great
orator of Ohio, said to man who
wanted him to get him official posi-
ton at Washington: accept clerk.
ship here and you sink Mt opco MI in.
dependence. I may give you place
today, aud 1 can kick you out to-
morrow; and there is another man
over ut the White House who can
kick me out, and tho pooplo by and
by can kick him out; and 80 wo 20.
But if you own one nero of land it is
your kingdom, and your cabin is your
castle. You nre n sovereign, and you
will feel it in every throb of your
pulse, and overy day Of your lifo will
ASSURE mo Of your thanks in having
thus advised YOU"
My hearers, the most corrupt and
corrupting thing to-day is politics.
We have nc. longer what was called
"the off year in politics" When a
man is put at tho head of n city or
state ticket people begin to ransack
pigeon holes and portfolios and old
trunks in tho garret, to seo if thoy
can find any letters that he has ever
written that may be construed into
that which is compromising and dam.
natory, and good men. up in Office,
sometimes get so morbid about the
wholesale attack upon them thoy feel
almost like going mp to tho police
station and surrondering themselves
either to state prison or the gallows
The damage is not done SO much
to those running for Office, because
every man comes eventually to be
taken for abont what he is worth,
and you cannot put him permanently
into false position, but the damage liz
to those who manufacture the un-
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truths. and to tho community in gen.
ernl, who get so in tho habit of lying
in the carly autumn that they cannot
stop the rest of the year. A man
may enter political life from Chris.
tian and reformatory motives, and be
divinely protected and come forth ns
pure as when he went in. but rather
than -enter political life as trade
you had better get some ono to write
your obituary and then crawl into an
empty sepulcher and stay there wait
ing for the resurrection trumpet.
But 1 turn n leaf malodorous and
come 10 leaf aromatic aS Paradise.
The nutumnal flowers have for The
last few days been holding conven
tion at Eden Musee, New York
Banked in the show windost@Df
Broadway, for many blocks,
flowers, perhaps on their way fe
headquarters at Eden Musee orTom.
ing therefrom, or 30 pleased with
their places in the store windows
that they had concluded to stay, for
have always thought that flowers
love to be looked at, and they prefer
10 stop where most admired. Beauty,
whether in botanical array or in Il
child's cheek, was intended by the